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From: | Lorenzo Bettini |
Subject: | Re: printing library version |
Date: | Fri, 22 May 2009 15:46:36 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) |
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Lorenzo, * Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:58:04PM CEST:if I want to print the library version from a program I cannot simply current:revision:agebecause that does not correspond to the actual lib file name, e.g., 2:0:1 corresponds to mylib.so.1.1.0...is it correct to print 2:0:1 or 1.1.0?What do your users need the data for? If this is for purely informational purposes, then it probably doesn't even matter what you print. If you need it for a technical reason, well, I would like to understand that use case then.
I just wanted to print this version information together with a program's version information just to show which version of a library the program is using...
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